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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

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Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

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People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

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The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

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I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

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I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

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I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

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I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

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When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

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Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

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The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

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When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.

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It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

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One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

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I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

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Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

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The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

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In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and Bjoerk with her swan dress. Then we thought it was bad taste; now I think it should have been the best dress because she stood out.

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I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

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Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!

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